On this cassette we have two Sufi rituals (Dhikrs).
Side A:
Dhikr Circle of the Naqshbandiyye Tariqat
Haj Nour Mohammad Dorpour (Vocal soloist)
Gholam Ali Pouratta'i (Dotar & Vocal)
and nine Naqshbandiyye Dervishes
Side B:
Dhikrs from Nikshahr, Baluchestan
Qaderi dervishes
NOUR MOHAMMAD DORPOUR
"Master vocalist and dotar player (lute) Nour Mohammad Dorpour is one of
the most respected singers of mystical Sufi song from Southern Khorasan in
the Northeast of Iran. As a bard and mystic, Dorpour has a repertoire of
literally several thousand lyrics of mystic songs which he memorizes all by
heart, and he is most well known for his recitations of the poetry of Jalal
ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. He accompanies himself on the dotar
(lute). Dorpour, a Turkman, belongs to a branch of the the Naqshbandieh Sufi
order."
Nour Mohammad Dorpour is the last master who knows the old mystical
repertoire of Torbat-e Jam in Eastern Khorasan in its vast completeness. I'm not
sure if he is still living. In Iran these CDs have been published:
The recordings of this cassette have been released on CD in 2015, together with a third recording from this series, with a detailed booklet in Farsi and English, written by Mohammad Reza Darvishi:
As usual, all these CDs can be obtained from: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com
Here we had already a recording by Nour Mohammad Dorpour in Vol. 5. He is also present in several series of regional music mentioned in Vol. 1 and the three albums of music from Khorasan mentioned here, which we plan to post in the future.
